1968 Movies

An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

This is one of the Omnibus programmes about the Russian impresario Diaghilev. Presented by Peter Ustinov, this episode focuses on Diaghilev’s early life and the first seasons of his legendary ballet company Ballets Russes from 1909 until the outbreak of war in...

Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing Tobimaru, she brings great misfortune onto the land. Tobimaru soon discovers that Tomamo is actually a kitsune, and now has the task to unmask and kil...

In 1968 Harry Belafonte and Petula Clark sang together her song On the Path Of Glory for this special on NBC. Not such a remarkable event in itself, but Petula touched Harry's forearm during the duet and made TV history. It was the first time a white woman had...

A day in the life of a Franciscan peasant family in Paraguay in 1968, depicting the Cabral family's gestures, attitudes, small daily events, affective relationships, and dignity.

Brothers Rolly and Ricky hunt boat thieves and smugglers in the Stockholm archipelago.

Film by Françoise Janicot & Bernard Heidsieck.

The three daughters of a mature marriage and their problems with the original boyfriends.

Anuaradha and her brother save a man, Debabrata, washed ashore from the sea. Anuaradha and Debabrata fall in love and get married, but Anuaradha's feelings change when she finds that Debabrata is widower and has a son.

A princess falls in love with a man of the people, and their love must be a secret. But when someone takes a photo of them together, the scandal is a fact.

Christer Berg dies in a car crash and is found with a teddy bear named "Bamse". His son, also named Christer finds out that Bamse belongs to his father's lover Barbro Persson. He tries to humiliate her, introducing her to his mother as his new fiancée. But he...

The consistency of a family with 13 children tested when a childless couple asks Americans to adopt the 14th located in his mother's belly.

A poetic montage of the 'sculpture garden house' of 67 year old hermit-builder Clarence Schmidt of Woodstock, New York, appraised as 'a really great work of folk art' by curators Lawrence Alloway and Henry Geldzahler. The film includes some of the only footage...

John Waters' first sixteen-millimetre film, about a deranged nanny who kidnaps young girls and forces them to 'model themselves to death' in front of her boyfriend and their crazed friends. It was never shown commercially.

This documentary focuses on the contest for the continental interior. It examines the American advantages and the problems plaguing Canada internally. It also looks at the Oregon and Maine boundaries, American anti-monarchism, and a potential sign of a transco...